Brother Pe Design 6 Manual

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Specifying the Sewing Area
The sewing area can be specified.
1.Click Sew, then Select Sewing Area.
→The following dialog box appears.
2.Select the desired sewing area (Design Page 
area or Use existing design area).
3.Click OK.
bMemo:
To quit the operation, click Cancel.
→If Design Page area was selected, the 
patterns will be sewn so that the needle 
position when you start sewing is aligned 
with the center of your...

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Checking and Editing the Sewing Order/
Color
The sewing order of pattern colors as well as the 
sewing order of pattern objects of the same color 
can be checked and modified as necessary.
Toolbar button: 
1.Click  , or click Sew, then Sewing Order/
Color.
→A Sewing Order/Color dialog box similar 
to the one shown below appears.
bMemo:
The dialog box can be made longer so that 
all parts of the pattern can be viewed.
To enlarge each pattern to fill its...

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Editing the sewing order
The sewing order can be changed by selecting the 
frame containing the pattern that you want to move, 
then dragging the frame to the new location. A 
vertical red line appears, indicating the position 
where the frame is being moved.
An alternative method for moving the frames is by 
clicking the buttons at the bottom of the dialog box.
To move the selected pattern to the beginning 
of the sewing...

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Zooming
You can zoom in to work on details of the embroidery pattern or you can zoom out to work on any part of the 
embroidery pattern that cannot be viewed in the work area.
Zooming in
1.Click   on the Tool Box.
→Five buttons appear:  .
2.Click .
→The shape of the pointer changes to 
.
3.Click the area that you want to view enlarged.
bMemo:
To zoom in on a specific area, move the 
pointer near the desired area, and then drag 
the pointer diagonally over...

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Previewing the Sewing Image
Once the embroidery pattern is complete, you can display a preview of it in order to see how the stitching is 
connected, or you can display a realistic preview of it in order to see how the pattern will appear once it is sewn. 
1.To display a preview of the embroidery 
pattern, click Display on the menu bar, and 
then click Preview.
An alternate method is to click the Toolbar 
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5.Click Apply to display a realistic preview of the 
patterns with the new settings (when the 
realistic preview is displayed).
Or, click OK to save the settings for the next 
time that the Realistic Preview function is 
select (when the realistic preview is not 
displayed).bMemo:
To close the dialog box without applying the 
changes to the settings, click Close or 
Cancel.
c“Previewing the Sewing Image” on 
page 187
Checking the Stitching
The actual...

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second number indicates the total number 
of colors used.
 The first number beside   indicates the 
pattern section that is displayed, and the 
second number indicates the total number 
of hoop sections in the pattern. This 
indicator appears only for patterns created 
on custom-sized Design Pages.2.Click   in the upper-right corner of the 
dialog box to close the dialog box.
bMemo:
If a pattern was selected when the...

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 To display information for other pattern 
sections, click Previous or Next.
 The pattern sections are displayed in order 
from left to right, top to bottom. Pattern 
sections that do not contain any stitching 
will not be displayed.
 To close the dialog box, click 
Close.
Editing User Thread Color Lists
Original thread color charts can be created and 
edited.
1.Click Option, then Edit User Thread Chart.
→A dialog box similar to the one shown be-
low...

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Adding an item from a system thread chart
1.From the System Thread Chart  selector, 
select the brand of thread that you want to 
add.
2.From the list at the bottom of the dialog box, 
click the thread colors that you want to add.
bMemo:
To add multiple items, hold down the   
or   keys while selecting thread colors.
3.Click .
→ The selected items are added to the list in 
the user thread chart.
Adding a new item
1.Click...

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5.Click OK to add the new item to the user 
thread chart.
bMemo:
An asterisk (*) appears in front of the index 
number of newly added items.
Deleting an item
From the list for the user thread chart, select the 
item to be deleted, and then click  Delete Item to 
delete the item from  the user thread chart.
Editing an item
An item registered in the li st for a user thread chart 
can be edited to change the color or thread number.
1.From the list for the...